Teaching Opportunities for Undergraduates

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

You can gain valuable teaching and laboratory experience by teaching your peers in certain courses. To be an undergraduate teaching assistant (UGTA), you should enroll in IPHY 3010: Teaching in Integrative Physiology. You must be of junior standing and have a B in the course that you will be teaching. The following courses have had UGTAs in the past:

• IPHY 3415: Human Anatomy Lab
• IPHY 3435: Human Physiology Lab
• IPHY 4540: Biomechanics
• IPHY 4650: Exercise Physiology
• IPHY 4720: Neurophysiology
• IPHY 3060: Cell Physiology
• IPHY 3460: Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy
• IPHY 3810: Forensic Biology Lab

Becoming a UGTA involves the following process:

1. Contact the instructor well in advance, typically early in the semester before you want to teach. There is often a required TA review meeting that you will need to attend in addition to the class you teach.
2. After instructor approval, you will need to submit to him or her the Application for IPHY 3010: Teaching in Integrative Physiology.
3. After the necessary signatures are obtained, office staff will subsequently enroll you in the course, which usually takes a few days.

Learning Assistant

You can also gain wonderful teaching experience by participating in the Learning Assistant Program where you help teach science and/or math courses on the CU campus. Go to http://laprogram.colorado.edu/ for more details on the program.

CU Teach

If you see yourself teaching science in high school or middle school, the CU Teach program is for you. The IPHY major is a great preparation for teaching at the secondary level. Go to http://cuteach.colorado.edu/ for all the details.